The career of the English naval commander Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) touched all aspects of the Elizabethan maritime world from the illegal and inglorious to the patriotic and profitable. His skills...
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Sir John Hawkins has had the misfortune to be remembered for his unsociability, exemplified in the rudeness to Edmund Burke that led to his withdrawal from Samuel Johnson's best-known club. But Hawkin...
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For over two centuries Sir John Hawkins has been known as a "most unclubable man." That Hawkins deserved this epithet bestowed on him by his friend Samuel Johnson cannot be denied, for his personality...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - A deadly wildfire that killed four
firefighters spread out of control Friday as wind drove it across
parched landscape burning some 10,000 hectares, auth...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - The reward for information leading to the
capture of an arsonist who set a deadly wildfire that killed four
firefighters rose to 400,000 dollars Friday, ...
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Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days.Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their ...
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Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days.Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their ...
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Their main job used to be retrieving rusty murder weapons, the corpses of homicide victims and the occasional stolen car from the murky depths of the city's waterways.But in recent years, the New Y...
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Even as many of the wildfires in flame-ravaged Southern California died down and residents returned home, lingering dust and soot-laden air made it difficult for many to breathe even a sigh of reli...
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John Hawkins, Sir
John Hawkins
Deadly wildfire spreads in California
